Medical: England and Wales, London: Medico-Psychological Association (Founded 1841), an uniface oval copper award medal by J.S. and A.B. Wyon, Psyche seated left, back named (Presented to Hugh Morton, MB, for a Dissertation on The Biochemistry of the Cerebro-spinal Fluid, July 1910), 68 x 58mm (Storer 6544); British Ambulance and Home Nursing Association, a bronze award medal by Rowlands & Frazer, Red Cross, rev. wreath, named (First Aid Class, Merry Abbott, December 1894), 51mm; National Dental Hospital and College, a bronze award medal, unsigned, arms in quadrilobe, rev. wreath, named (Dental Surgery, Session 1914-15, A.G. Hewer), 35mm; Assoc[iation] of Anaesthetists of Great Britain & Ireland, John Snow Medal, 1946, a light bronze award by J.R. Pinches, arms and supporters, rev. three poppy-seed heads, named (Dr George Edwards, John Snow Memorial Lecturer, Autumn 1958), 58mm (MJP p.5); The St John Ambulance Association, Grand Prior’s Trophy, a copper medal, knight of St John on horseback right, rev. wreath, impressed (1951, 11th Team), 76mm [5]. Very fine and better (£50-70)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, British Medals from the Collection of James Spencer.

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John Snow (1813-58), the first professional and academic physician anaesthetist, practised in Soho, London and was personal anaesthetist to Queen Victoria during the births of two of her children; a public house in Broadwick street, Soho, is named after him. The John Snow Memorial Lecture was instigated on the centenary of his death in 1958 and the first lecturer was George Edwards, consultant anaesthetist at St George’s Hospital, London. Further details and a list of medallists is included in the lot